Record #:

28082

Author(s):

Schwartz, Joe

Abstract:

Chapel Hill resident Sadie Rapp decided to “go green” for her recent bat mitzvah. Making decorations, Rapp and her family repurposed garbage and recycled materials and encouraged guests to walk or carpool to the event. Rapp also decided to donate a portion of her gifts to charity and her blog on the experience has gained national attention from rabbis. Rapp said it is up to those who have completed their bat mitzvah to be responsible and take care of the world.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 26 Issue 52, December 2009, p4 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jews--North Carolina; Religion--Practice of; Judaism--Customs and practices

Record #:

40703

Author(s):

Zitser, Ernest A.

Abstract:

Credited with coining the term genocide, Lemkin also receives credit for participating in the adoption of international human rights law. Nazi atrocities upon Jews inspired Lemkin's efforts, which continued during his tenure as a Duke University political science lecturer and law student.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 96 Issue 1, January 2019, p34-65 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Duke University--Faculty; Duke University. School of Law--History; Human rights; Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959; Duke University School of Law--Malcolm McDermott; Jews--North Carolina; Duke University--Raphael Lemkin; North Carolina Bar Association--Raphael Lemkin; International human rights--Raphael Lemkin

Record #:

40709

Author(s):

Epstein, Seth

Abstract:

Asheville’s Jewish community, long objects of prejudice, became a group tolerated by representatives of the city’s elite. It happened chiefly by their association with Zebulon Vance, being viewed as superior to African Americans, and efforts to memorialize Vance initiated by influential Jews such as Solomon Lipinsky.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 96 Issue 3, July 2019 , p305-340 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jews--North Carolina--Asheville--History; Jews--North Carolina; Vance, Zebulon B. ; Asheville--Pack Square--Vance Monument; University of North Carolina Asheville--D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections; Progressivism--North Carolina--Asheville; United Daughters of the Confederacy--North Carolina Chapter--History; United Daughters of the Confederacy--Zebulon B. Vance ; Lipinsky, Solomon, 1856-1925; Synagogues--Asheville--Beth HaTephilia; Asheville--Calvary Episcopal Church--Zebulon B. Vance monument

Record #:

16637

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

For more than 300 years Jews have called North Carolina home. Now the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina (JHFNC) is telling its story in a multimedia project, \"Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina.\" The program will include a documentary film, an illustrated book, a school curriculum and a traveling museum exhibition that will tour the state's metropolitan areas.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 9 Issue 8, Aug 2008, p? Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jews--North Carolina

Record #:

26969

Author(s):

Yeoman, Barry

Abstract:

There is a vibrant and diverse Jewish community in the North Carolina Triangle, but their culture is less apparent. According to interviews with several Jewish locals, the internalized oppression of being different makes you either strongly want to assimilate and be like everybody else, or makes people huddle and not trust anybody on the outside.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 6 Issue 5, Mar 10-23 1988, p7-13, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jews--North Carolina

Record #:

9954

Author(s):

Hammond, Alice R.

Abstract:

Mrs. Moffitt Sinclair Henderson of Salisbury used her personal copy of “Proceedings and Debates of the convention of North Carolina Called to Amend the Constitution of the State” as source material for her new book on the life of Samuel Price Carson. The volume, given to Mrs. Henderson by her maternal grandfather who was Carson's brother, contains eyewitness accounts of what may have been North Carolina's first public debate on civil rights. Delegates to the 1835 convention met in Raleigh to amend the original constitution of North Carolina and heard impassioned arguments by Carson supporting a failed bid to strike Article 32, which restricted Catholics and Jews from holding public office. Carson left North Carolina soon after the convention, following his friend Sam Houston to Texas and helping to establish that new Republic, eventually becoming its first Secretary of State.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 18, Apr 1973, p19, por

Subject(s):

Civil rights; North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865; Carson, Samuel Price, 1798-1838; Jews--North Carolina; Catholics--North Carolina

Record #:

28658

Author(s):

Gerdes, John Henry

Abstract:

In the 1850s, several Jewish merchants established in Wilmington. While there were not enough Jews to form a congregation, by the middle of the 1850s enough had arrived to form a charitable society and to establish a burial ground for members of the faith.

Source:

Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin (NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 28 Issue 1, Oct 1984, p1-5, f

Subject(s):

Jews--North Carolina; Wilmington--History--19th Century

Record #:

20642

Author(s):

Golden, Harry L.

Abstract:

This article looks at the history of Jewish people and culture in North Carolina, and is written on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the first Jewish settlement in North America. The author looks at the historiography of Jewish cultural history, at the establishment of religious groups in the colonies, and then at Jewish communities within the state.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 32 Issue 2, April 1955, p194-216, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jews--North Carolina

Record #:

29569

Author(s):

Lotz, C.J.; Portman, Jed

Abstract:

As the winter season continues into February, states across the south celebrate their traditions with a variety of festivals. One of those festivals is North Carolina’s Jewish Food in the Global South, held in Chapel Hill. The festival features culinary speakers, films, cooking classes, and Jewish food traditions.

Source:

Garden and Gun (NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 11 Issue 1, Feb/Mar 2017, p129-138, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Festivals; Cuisine; Jews--North Carolina

Record #:

17380

Author(s):

Ball, Billy

Abstract:

The Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church purchased ads for the 98 city buses. Ad content includes a Palestinian and Israeli man standing with a child and the message \"Join with us. Build peace with justice and equality. End U.S. military aid to Israel.\" Both the message and the financial backing, which came from a lobbying group called U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, caused controversy amongst Jewish community leaders.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 29 Issue 36, Sept 2012, p15 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Chapel Hill--Politics and government; Jews--North Carolina

Record #:

35175

Author(s):

Borowsky, Anton

Abstract:

Two humorous stories from the Low Country of the Carolinas, one about two competing fisherwomen, and the other about a rabbi who accidentally got baptized.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 1, July 1961, p46-48 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklore; Fish trade--Ocracoke Island; Jews--North Carolina